RE: [ILLUSION]: dear god, make it stop...

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 22:09:10 MDT

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    Karen writes

    > If you stare at it in the center, without
    > blinking, the appearance of movement disappears.

    It does appear to depend on eye movement or blinking.

    Brendan provides a nice link to another one too:

    http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html

    For *this* one, I notice that if I tilt my head 45 degrees
    the phenomenon disappears. This should be a hint as to
    what the mechanism is (edge detectors or whatever).

    Lee

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